-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Nux! Sent: den 4 november 2013 14:02 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server
Please check this page, if you have the driver from the manufactured it shows you how to load it: https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/...
That doesn't look like the CentOS-installer does it. Anyway, this was what I was trying to accomplish with ctrl-alt-f2 when Anaconda froze on me.
I've come so far as installing Fedora 19 and having it see all the hard-drives, but it refuses to create any partition bigger than approx. 16 TB with ext4.
Yes, RedHat puts in this artificial limit. They say they do not support volumes larger than this and recommend XFS instead, which is what I recommend as well.
What about this 1 GB RAM per TB disk-space for XFS in order to be able to do an fsck? I don't think I can fit that much RAM (40 GB) on this particular motherboard.
Just a thought - I maintain a CentOS destop oriented remix and have an ISO with the kernel from elrepo.org (kernel-ml): http://li.nux.ro/download/ISO/Stella6.4_x86_64.1_kernel-ml.iso It's not tested much but the kernel might be new enough to support the raid card, if you can install it you could keep using it; "changing it" it to CentOS is trivial.
That's a thought - plan B. Thanks!
-- //Sorin